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From: nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/08/14
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Bob Duff wrote:

:doylep@ecf.toronto.edu writes:

:> The Eiffel convention is to use uppercase for class names and lowercase for
:> feature names. [..] Some compilers won't even accept
:> source code that does not follow this convention ..
:
:The "some compilers" above introduces another point: Shouldn't the
:language standard specify one way or the other?!

Standard Eiffel is case-insensitive. I'm not sure which compiler Patrick 
is referring to, but if it enforces any case convention, it's a 
non-compliant implementation.


Don.
Don Harrison   donh at syd.csa.com.au